[aprssig] Finding HF GATEs on FINDU

[Steve Dimse]

Bob, I love you most of all because you even LOOK like the absent  
minded professor you ARE...

 From Christmas Eve, 2004 (I was laid up in bed with a shattered  
ankle, why were you emailing on Xmas eve????), when I fixed this at  
your urging:

Begin forwarded message:
> On 12/24/04 at 6:05 PM Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu> sent:
>
>> I suspect the # digi character is throwing your CGI parser
>> for a loop?  Im trying to work on the overall North
>> Americal Strategy for digis and need to konw where
>> all the T digis are...
>>
> I spent a little time trying to find a general solution and  
> couldn't, so here's
> a quick and dirty solution, the text pound gets replaced with # and  
> amp replaced
> with &. There are probably other problems, if you need any I'll fix  
> them, but
> this isn't a popular cgi, only 323 hits this month, and that  
> includes the
> release mention on aprssig...
>
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/symbol.cgi?icon=Tpound
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/symbol.cgi?icon=/amp
>
Maybe if I started billing you for each time you do this....

Steve K4HG

On Jul 26, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote:

>>>> ben at ben.com 07/26/06 5:20 PM >>>
>> Is there an easy way to identify all the HF GATEs?
>> I'm watching an APRS-IS feed filtered for /&
>> (described as "HF GATE") and \- ("HF home")
>> only a fraction seem to be on HF.
>
> Those descriptions derived back from 1993 before we had Igates.
> When IGates came out, we receommended that HF gates use an
> "H" overlay (H&)  and Igates use an "I" overlay (I&).
>
> Doing a FINDU search by symbol won't work because when you
> put "&" into the CGI, it chokes.  Maybe steve can include
> "ampersand" as a string to replace "&" when seraching
> for GATES.  Then the URL would be:
>
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/symbol.cgi?icon=/ampersand&limit=200
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/symbol.cgi?icon=Hampersand&limit=200
> http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/symbol.cgi?icon=Iampersand&limit=200
>
> and the second one would show you all "H" gates and the third one
> all "I" gates.
>
> de Wb4APR, Bob
>